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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
And to thy husband's will Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.
A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.
Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.
Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.
The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.
They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.
Angels contented with their face in heaven, Seek not the praise of men.
Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.
See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.
They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.
Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse.
And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.
Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.
Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.
Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.
Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.
Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east.
So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.
On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.
Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?
In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.
A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.
Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.
Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.
Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.
What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.
Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.
And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.
For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?
For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.
What can 'scape the eye Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart. Omniscient!
You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.
So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.
Morn, Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light.
Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.
To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.
United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.
Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?
What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.